Manager/Senior Manager, Engineering

Who you are:

You are a dynamic Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager with a blend of  8+ years of Software Development and technical people leadership experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative team, where you will have a direct impact on the customer experience. 

Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!

What you’ll do:

• Lead and mentor engineers across core data and AI teams, fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture with clear guidance and resources.
• Guide architectural and technical decisions, ensuring best practices in development, testing, and deployment while aligning platform strategy with business objectives.
• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of web applications using technologies like Python, Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, Postgres, and AWS.
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues, emphasizing quality and maintainability through comprehensive tests, documentation, and automation.
• Collaborate on system design for AI/ML services, working with data scientists to build scalable, data-driven products, drive AI-powered feature development, optimize data pipelines, and advance prompting strategies across LLMs.
• Lead data pipeline creation and optimization with data warehouses like Redshift and Snowflake to support AI services.
• Take ownership of team growth, contributing to interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
• Allocate roughly 60% of the role to people management and 40% to hands-on coding and technical problem-solving.
• Establish development best practices, foster continuous improvement, prioritize projects for timely delivery, and ensure technical excellence through code reviews and tool implementation.
• Encourage innovation by nurturing ideas for advanced tech solutions that enhance the company’s competitive edge.
• [Required] Demonstrate experience with data pipelines and data warehouses, and guide their optimization.
• [Required] Show hands-on experience in AI/ML systems, including model design and deployment for actionable insights.

What you have:

• Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, data pipelines and continuous development
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-10 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 5-7 years’ experience
• 2+ years leading technical teams
• Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
• Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL

Extras you bring to the table:

• Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
• Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
• Experience with functional/acceptance testing

Why join Polly?

• We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates 
• We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms 
• Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility 
• Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders 
• Competitive salaries
• 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance for full time employees
• Flexible vacation
• Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in an innovation hub in San Francisco or Dallas.

Let's get to know each other.

Polly has pioneered the next generation of mortgage capital markets technology with its cutting-edge, data-driven platform. Its enterprise-grade solutions, including the industry's only cloud-native, commercially scalable product, pricing, and eligibility (PPE) engine and first-of-its-kind Polly/™ AI platform, empower the nation's top banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders to increase profitability, automate workflows, and revolutionize the loan officer and broker experiences. As a mortgage technology trailblazer, Polly is committed to driving meaningful value and ROI through best-in-class innovation that enables unlimited configurability, flexibility, granularity, and scalability. Polly was founded by a seasoned team of mortgage capital markets and technology experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Recognized as a pioneer in mortgage capital markets, as well as in culture and career development, Polly was named to Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers in 2025. This evaluation was based on three key criteria: Employer Reputation, Employee Satisfaction, and Company Growth.

To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io. Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Beware of recruitment scams impersonating the Polly brand or our employees. Our team communicates only through official Polly channels, and we will never ask for sensitive information over text or conduct text-only interviews. If you are ever suspicious or in doubt, reach out to us directly at [email protected]. We care deeply about this network and your experience.